Their Majesties have been sandwiching a visit to Ireland between two ceremonial visits to Wales, They went by train to Holyhead on Thursday and took up their quarters on the Royal yacht. On Tuesday the King laid the nation stone of the new buildings of he North Wales University at Bangor. On Wednesday the King and Queen, who are accompanied throughout their little tour by Princess Victoria, crossed to Kingstown, visited the International Exhibition at Dublin, and attended xarden_ party given by the Viceroy aad Lady Aberdeen; yesterday they attended Leopardstown Races; to-day they return to Wales, and to-morrow they open the: new docks at Cardiff and are el cal by the Marquess and March Bute, question of the y who feared that the recent rene nse Treland and the predonni ites teonld be his consort in Dublin been falsified at any ra the leading Tittle ent shows receding. in probably ne people in Europe," "in who the of personal than he proof of the fact. Queen Victor of the very rare errors of judger she committed in her relations with her] Mr. Lea, the Radienl member for East subjects, see part of her ointed the existe her husband. Unfortunately owing to the unsatisfactory state of international—or perhaps it would be more accurate to say the absence of any international law—relating to mixed marriages she can in England get no more than a separation, although the finding of the jury would have been ample ground for divorce, if the parties had been British subjects. 'There is still an action pending in Germany in which the Baron seeks divorce on the gronnd—strange British ears—of " wifely disobedience' bat although no doubt the Baroness would welcome the complete dissolution of the tie it is a question whether the divorce on this ground would be valid in England, The Baroness, it will be remembered, is the only child of the late Sir John Maple, head of the great furniture shop in Tottenham Court Road, She was evidently madly in love with her Gernan husband when she married ud for long after wards, and he professes to have been in love with her. That he treated his wife very badly the jury have held to be proved bat what hax irritated the ix the contempt with pluming himself tradesman's fam worried, and whom he squeezed out of hunulreds of thousands of pounds te: ts wd et the pensex of his dissipation. That the: plate Sir dlohn Blundell Maple bad a bond deal of th noureun riche bout him must be acknowledged, but was onerous and genial and popular, and worth 9 of the petty Gi te whose marriage with his daughter he very reluctantly consented.—It must be con that the average B yy worship rank in ral, is not impressed ly a nan barony.
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